European Court comes good once more
I’ve posted before about the UK’s DNA database holding information about the innocent as well as the guilty and the difficulties of getting your information removed once it’s there. 1 in 13 people in...
View ArticleOliver Postgate – R.I.P.
Sadly I’ve just read that Oliver Postgate, creator of such children’s classics as the Clangers, Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine is no more. The Clangers of course were famous for disproving all that...
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Coraline Alphabet art
As part of the promotion for the new Coraline movie the producers have scattered 26 unique alphabet artworks across the web. As a work avoidance strategy I thought I’d track them down (to save you the...
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Sometimes I despair for humanity
I’ve just been listening to ‘Any Questions‘ and ‘Any Answers’ on the radio. For those of you that are outside the UK, or don’t listen to Radio 4, ‘Any Questions’ is a discussion programme where a panel...
View ArticleHang on a minute, lads – I’ve got a great idea
I’m sure you’ve all seen the classic film The Italian Job (and no I don’t mean the god-awful remake) so you’ll know the literally cliff-hanging ending. Ever since, people have been left to speculate...
View ArticleNew Coraline trailer released
There’s a new Coraline trailer popped up on the web: This is the first one I’ve seen that seems scary enough for the book. I’ve been hoping that the movie would manage to preserve the air of fairy-tale...
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Ride the Atheist bus…to hell!
You’ve probably been following the story behind the atheist bus adverts which are currently running in London, but just in case, here’s a quick precis. Atheist Bus It all started with an article in The...
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Why we need monsters at the bottom of the garden
Monster eye I showed in passing in my last post a quote from Douglas Adams: Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?...
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The man who invented Frankenstein’s Monster’s Bolt
Frankenstein. Never was a name more unfairly associated with a shambling re-animated corpse. Frankenstein's Monster If only Mary Shelley had given the monster a name then we would have been spared the...
View ArticleThe Sun hits a new low
It’s interesting that in a week where allegations of phone-tapping have been dogging the tabloid press, one of their members is quite happy to transcribe the results from one on their front page. I’m...
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